Thursday, April 13, 2017

Wake up Wales

If you walk through the estate - home to 2,200 people - very little has changed on the surface from how it looked decades ago. The "sterile" urban landscape, the lack of trees on the little green space the estate has, are all features; horizons are limited, physically and emotionally.

Lansbury was named after a Labour leader of the Depression era when it was built in the 1960s and Attlee Court in the middle is among reminders of other figures from the party's failed past.

More than half the pupils at the local primary school, St James, qualify for free school meals.